Nigella

Accepted species 26 Documented here 6 Family Ranunculaceae

Accepted species 26 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Nigella damascena L. 551 documented
Nigella arvensis L. 101 documented
Nigella nigellastrum (L.) Willk. 8 documented
Nigella elata Boiss. 6 documented
Nigella gallica Jord. 6 documented
Nigella sativa L. 3 documented
Nigella integrifolia Regel 2 below the evidence gate
Nigella bucharica Schipcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella carpatha Strid 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella ciliaris DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella degenii Vierh. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella deserti Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella doerfleri Vierh. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella fumariaefola Kotschy 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella hispanica L. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella icarica Strid 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella koyuncui Dönmez & Uğurlu 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella lancifolia Hub.-Mor. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella orientalis L. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella oxypetala Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella papillosa G.López 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella segetalis M.Bieb. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella stellaris Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella stricta Strid 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella turcica Dönmez & Mutlu 0 below the evidence gate
Nigella unguicularis (Poir.) Spenn. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.